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Shrubs - Early works to 1800
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The planter's guide: or, pleasure gardener's companion. Giving plain directions, with observations, for the proper disposition and management of the various trees and shrubs for a pleasure garden plantation. To which is added, a list of hardy trees and shrubs for ornamenting such gardens: Concisely Exhibiting at One View The Genera, Class, Order, and Species of each Kind; the Countries they are Natives of; the Height each usually grows to; their Foliages, Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds; the Soil they thrive best in; and their Propagation. The whole Alphabetically Digested. With a Catalogue of the Principal Varieties of Each Kind. Embellished with copper-plates proper to the Subject. by James Meader, late Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland.
Meader, James.Date: 1779- Books
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A general system of trees and shrubs. For all Useful and Ornamental plantations, in gardens, pleasure-grounds, shrubberies, parks, paddocks, woods, groves, walks, avenues, clumps, thickets, hedges, hedge-rows, arbours, orchards, fruit-tree plantations, and all other plantation districts, eligible for the improvement and embellishment of gardens, estates, &c. Forming A compleat general system of trees and shrubs, agreeable to the Linnaean system; Being arranged in their respective Genera or Families, under the Generical or Botanic Family Names, Latin and English. By John Abercrombie, (author of Every man his own Gardener.)
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1788?]